Molecules

Visualize Protein Data Bank 3D structures of proteins and nucleic acids.

Who can use this feature?

👤 By default, all Admins and Editors (but not Viewers).

🏢 Available on all plans.

Type /Molecule or drag and drop a molecule file into the editor to insert an interactive preview that lets you visualize and rotate three-dimensional representation like proteins and DNA/RNA, with a variety of representations.

Supported formats

• Molecular structures

  • Protein Data Bank (pdb)

  • Macromolecular Crystallographic Information File (cif)

  • Protein Data Bank partial charge (pqr)

  • GROMACS structure format (gro)

  • Structure-data file (sdf)

  • MOL2 (Molecular structure format by Tripos) (mol2)

  • Macromolecular Transmission Format (mmtf)

• Density volumes

  • CCP4 format (ccp4)

  • OpenDX scalar data (dxbin)

  • Gaussian cube data (cube)

  • BRIX format (brix)

  • XPLOR/CNS format (cns)

• Surface representations

  • Polygon File Format (ply)

  • Wavefront Object (obj)

Video overview